18 facts that may sound fake but are real!

Grace Michelle
Wonders of Nature
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7 min readJan 11, 2024

By the way, the world is so big that there are many wonders, especially in this era of information explosion, you will find that weird and absurd things and people are everywhere. As the ancients said: The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds…

For example, among the incredible real-life things below, one of them will refresh your knowledge!

In 1989, Japanese elementary school teacher Yumi Tanaka discovered a strange thing in the toilet while going to the toilet: a floating black shoe.

Upon further inspection, she discovered the body of a man in a sewer tank outside. The man squeezed through the 35cm diameter sewer opening and entered the waste bin, most likely to spy on women going to the toilet…

After careful cleaning, the body was confirmed to be that of 26-year-old Naoyuki Kanno. He most likely died of hypothermia after getting stuck.

In 2017, an advertising agency in Tokyo offered non-smoking employees a novel benefit: non-smoking employees could enjoy an extra week of vacation.

In fact, if you calculate it carefully, the company actually makes a profit. If you only spend 10 minutes smoking and fishing every day at work, based on the eight-hour work system, you are equivalent to a week’s rest, while smokers smoke far more than 10 minutes!

Monkeys are better at buying stocks than stock fund managers? Raven, a chimpanzee who chose stocks by throwing darts, became the 22nd most successful manager in the United States.

The chimpanzee created his own index, called MonkeyDex, and achieved a 213% gain in 1999, outperforming the performance of more than 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street.

In all slot machines in casinos in the United States, no matter who pays the money, if you win the prize, it belongs to the person who pressed the button.

In 2017, a man in Florida asked his girlfriend to press the button, perhaps because he felt that novices had a “protection period.” In the end, he didn’t get a cent of the $100,000 bonus, and he ended up splitting it with his girlfriend. Got it…

Antonio and Rosa from Italy may be the oldest divorcees in history. They divorced in 2011, ending 77 years of marriage.

The reason for the divorce was: the old man discovered his wife’s extramarital affair letters from 60 years ago… When the two divorced, one was 99 years old and the other was 96…

I still have the letters after 60 years, which shows that I am still immersed in the old love…

There are more Israeli prime ministers born in Belarus than there are presidents of Belarus. The probability of a Belarusian becoming the prime minister of Israel is much greater than that of becoming the president of Belarus…

Three Israeli prime ministers were born in Belarus, and since Belarus implemented a presidential system in 1994, there has been only one president, Lukashenko…

On July 8, 2014, a German tourist named Lars Mittank was undergoing a head injury examination at the Bulgarian airport when he suddenly said to the doctor: “I don’t want to die here.”

Convinced someone was chasing him, the 28-year-old made a mad dash for the exit. He then abandoned all his personal belongings and ran into a nearby field, never to be seen again.

To this day, no one has figured out what happened to him — and the final shot of him escaping from his “invisible pursuer “ remains haunting.

In 2016, beautiful New Zealand girl Chloe Phillips-Harris was arrested while traveling in Kazakhstan because border officials believed that there was no country like New Zealand in the world…

When asked to point out New Zealand on the map, the young lady discovered that New Zealand was omitted from the world map hanging on the wall…

The Bajau people living in Southeast Asia are considered the last maritime nomads. Most of them make a living by diving into the sea and fishing, and are often called “sea gypsies.”

In order to improve their diving ability, the Bajau people deliberately puncture their eardrums at a very young age without having to worry about the pain caused by changes in water pressure. Most older Bajau people have hearing impairment.

In 2019, NBA undrafted DJ Cooper was suspended for two years by FIBA ​​for cheating on a urine test because his urine test results showed that he was pregnant…

It turned out that the urine actually belonged to his girlfriend. She may not have known that she was pregnant at the time. It was really embarrassing. Now she could really go on maternity leave…

Some blind people can “see” but they don’t realize it. This condition is also called “blindsight.” Their eyes are working normally, but the visual cortex of the brain is damaged, which is equivalent to a broken “independent graphics card”.

But the “integrated graphics card”, that is, the more primitive optic cap, can also receive signals from the retina , allowing blind people to subconsciously avoid obstacles.

Harry Raymond Eastlake, a famous patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). For people with this rare disease, muscle tissue and connective tissue will slowly “ossify” and eventually be “locked” by the bones…

At 15 years old, his jaw had fused and he could no longer eat solid food. Eventually, the only areas Istrak could move were his eyes, lips and tongue…

The creature below that looks like an alien is actually Graziely Alves Régis, an unfortunate girl from Brazil who suffers from severe hydrocephalus…

She suffered from hydrocephalus in the womb and has been bedridden for many years. She cannot speak or see. Her head has become three times the size of a normal person, but she can only live 3 months as the doctor said. The moon is already a miracle…

In 2014, a British man, Malcolm Macdonald, became seriously ill due to a blood infection, which caused his fingers and toes to turn black. What was even more frightening was that his entire penis became necrotic and fell off… Fortunately, doctors used Malcolm’s skin and tissue to and vein, a new one was planted in his arm…

Initially, it only needed to be cultured on the arm for two years, but due to delays due to the epidemic, it has been like this for six years…it was not until 2022 that it returned to the correct position…

In 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered an explosive loss of pressure at an altitude of 7,300 meters, and the roof of the front half of the aircraft was blown off.

Although the situation was extremely dangerous, the pilot miraculously landed safely after the passengers endured 13 minutes of fear!

All passengers survived, but unfortunately, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing was sucked out of the plane while she was attending to a passenger in the fifth row, and her body was never found.

In 2012, Korean prisoner Choi Gap-bok “slipped” out through the food trough at the bottom of the cell door after applying soap lotion on his body… The food delivery slot was about 15 centimeters high and 45 centimeters wide.

Cui, who has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years, slipped out while three prison guards were sleeping. He really has many skills but not too much trouble…

In fact, the above situation is not an isolated case. In 2016, a Russian suspect also escaped from the detention center using the same method, and his pants were squeezed out in the process…

The whole process lasted about 3 minutes, and was captured on surveillance video. The style of the painting was scary to look at… After he came out, he took his clothes back and left the detention center calmly.

In Nagoya, Japan, diners are flocking to a restaurant on Japan’s south coast because the restaurant offers a service that Dou M is very fond of: the waitress’s big bag…

The charge is about 500 yen. After all, it is physical work… This restaurant, which was on the verge of closing down, has become very popular. There is an endless stream of people queuing up to get beaten every day, including many women…

Human beings are such complex (changing) animals…

Human beings are such complex (changing) animals...

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Grace Michelle
Wonders of Nature

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